Dalton Family History

Dalton Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of the various places, for
example in Cumbria, County Durham, Lancashire, Northumberland, and
Yorkshire, named Dalton, from Old English dæl ‘valley’ (see
Dale) + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.English
and Irish (of Norman origin): habitational name for someone from Autun
(d’Autun) in Seine-et-Loire, France. The place name derives
from the Latin form Augustodunum, a compound of the imperial
name Augustus + the Gaulish element dun ‘hill’,
‘fort’.

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